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Stone Columbus, a namesake of the explorer and a modern trickster, wins a fortune at bingo and founds a new tribal nation
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Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer s soul as few people ever have Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents. Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation"
Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny. Voice Literary Supplement"
"A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one.-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have...Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."--Kirkpatrick Sale "Nation"
"Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."--Kirkpatrick Sale "Voice Literary Supplement"
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Nation"
Voice Literary Supplement"
Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer s soul as few people ever have Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents. Kirkpatrick Sale, Nation"
Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny. Voice Literary Supplement"
"A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one." --Los Angeles Times Book Review
A mythopoeic space-age chronicle . . . a modern Indian epilogue to the Columbus myth as incredible as any traditional stories. If you must read a book on Columbus . . . this is the one.-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Vizenor understands the wilder, irrational, half-mad parts of the Discoverer's soul as few people ever have...Columbus is appropriated here in an entirely new way, made to be an Indian in service to his Indian descendents."--Kirkpatrick Sale "Nation"
"Vizenor is unquestionably one of the most radical American literary voices on the subject of racial identity and an ironist extraordinaire as a witness to the aftermath of Manifest Destiny."--Kirkpatrick Sale "Voice Literary Supplement"
GERALD VIZENOR teaches Native American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel, Landfill Medition: Crossblood Stories, Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World, Interior Landscapes, The Trickster of Liberty, and numerous other books. Shadow Distance: A Gerald Vizenor Reader (1994) offers an overview of his work. Griever: An American Money King in China, his second novel, won the Fiction Collective Prize and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award.
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- PublisherWesleyan University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0819552410
- ISBN 13 9780819552419
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages196
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